Zelensky sounds warning on Russian intelligence sharing with Iran

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sounded new warnings about Russia’s intelligence sharing with Iran in an exclusive interview with The Hill’s sister network NewsNation. 

Zelensky, in his first remarks since President Trump’s Wednesday night address, provided insight on how Ukraine is helping the U.S. in its war against Iran, praised U.S. air defenses and shed more light on the meeting with top U.S. officials regarding negotiations to potentially end the Russia-Ukraine war. 

“We have confirmation that from my intelligence that Russia shared and shares the intelligence with, they share all this, a lot of satellite images of different objects on the territory of Middle East countries,” Zelensky told NewsNation’s Robert Sherman. “By the way, it’s about Emirates, it’s about Saudi Arabia, it’s about Qatar, it’s about Jordan. On some points, on some objects, we shared it with the Jordanists and we said it to American side. They did it twice.”

Zelensky told NBC News on Saturday that Russian forces took satellite images of a U.S. air base in Saudi Arabia three times in the days before Iran attacked the site.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed during a mid-March Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing that Iran is seeking intelligence help from Russia, China and other U.S. rivals.

The Ukrainian leader said he hoped the U.S. understood it was not a one-time issue, and were getting ahead of Iranian attacks by monitoring Russian channels.

“What they do in Ukraine, when we see in Ukraine that they do images, look, we are preparing for attack. We know one, two, three days they will attack us. This is how we prepare. We don’t know everything. But when we see it, we begin to prepare,” he said.

Zelensky also told Sherman about this week’s meeting with special envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kusher, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. 

“So we spoke about negotiations. Mostly we spoke about security guarantees for Ukraine. And you know that security guarantees, we can get them from the United States only or if this war will end. After the ending of the war, we can have these security guarantees,” he said.

“When American team began to speak about compromise, because between us, I saw that the world has to push Putin back, push Putin back. And this is a big compromise. He has to live back and pay everything what people lost.”

Updated: 11:25 a.m. EDT

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